Ed Algra, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1930, now living near Rotterdam. My education was a technical one, I came by accident to artistry, although I always had much interest in art, photography and music.Â
I’m a retired chemical engineer, worked at a research institute on mechanical properties of plastics and composite materials. I heard of fractals for the first time in the late eighties, and then read the well known books of Prof. Hans Lauwerier and other authors on this subject. At that time I also attended a Fractal symposium at the Technical University Delft, where Benoît Mandelbrot and some other prominent authors revealed the secrets of this new mathematical world. The pictures they showed made an overwhelming impression. Years after that, after my retirement and the connection to the web in 2005, I discovered what had happened in the meantime, the birth of a new kind of art, based on fractal concepts. Then it became a creative hobby for me. Both the mathematical and the artistic side of it have my interest.  Especially Ultra Fractal offers the possibility to write your own fractal math codes, and I love it to do so. I started Renderosity uploading on instigation of Arend Nijdam, aka “Fractelaar†in September 2005.
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Comments (8)
Fractelaar
very interresting FE zoom Ed The shell on the beach :-) with the blue air It has some cool 3d parts and my first idea where its a XD image :-) Keep coming with this sort of images Very refreshng
fractalchemist
Mooi! (..en scherp;-)) I too always like to look on the beach,the real or the fractal one for "mooitjes" like this one....Great FE find!
CarolSassy
Very pretty lighting 'n' colors! Cool shape 'n' presentation! (:
Dindin
I like the contrast of the pearly shell with the blue background .Mooi scherp gerenderd .
leanndra
This is cool! I love the silver! Also the depth is amazing! Most excellent! Leanndra
LFNForever
So VERY beautiful!! :)
renderix
great design!
sossy
a strong and thorney artwork! impressive and fabulous! ;o)